premiere in a suburb of denver. >> massacre after a gunman goes on a rampage. >> felt like it was wa coordinated attack. >> people inside tell us that i thought it was part of the movie. >> a man walked to the front of the theater holding a rifle and opened fire. >> people were running away. i hit the ground so i wouldn't be hit. >> whe i exited, there were police officers with assault rifles. >> police officers found the gunman in possession of a gas mask. at least a rifle and a handgun. >> police are still searching for possible explosives at the apartment building where the lone gunman lives. >> a motive for the attack still unknown. >> i don't ever want to see something like that again. welcome to "cbs this morning."

we begin with breaking news out of colorado, where at least 12 people were killed in a shooting at midnight at a showing of the movie "the dark knight rises." it happened inside a theater at a mall in aurora, 10 miles southeast of denver. >> we are hearing at least 38 people were injured, including several young children. police say one suspect identified as 24-year-old james holmes is under arrest. and barry peterson is at the scene this morning in aurora. barry, what is the latest? >> reporter: well, the numbers have adjusted just a little bit. 12 dead. originally they were worried that it would be 14. that's good. but there are now 16 people listed as critical. that's not so good. another 33 who have been taken to area hospitals. the youngest victim, a 3-month-old child, we're told, was treated and released. this gunman walked into the theater through an exit door apparently from the right as you face the screen. nobody has said he said anything.

he just started shooting in a very random way. threw a tear gas canister, some sort of gas canister, and basically opened fire. now not automatic fire, but bang, bang, individual shots at individual people. as you can imagine, it was pandemonium. and we'll share with you now some of the stories that the witnesses have been telling since this incident. >> the door swings right open. the emergecy exit door. somebody walks in. dressed all in black. from the gas mask, black outfit, you cannot see anything but the person's eyes. and there was a gas can thrown into the audience behind me. it went off. i thought it was a stunt of the movie. so i didn't think anything serious of it once it went off. >> did the guy throw the gas canister or did you know? >> i wasn't sure. something happened behind me. >> gotcha. go on. >> still, gunshots went off. and me and my friend, we went to the floor. and being in the position that we were in, we couldn't exactly

make our way out of there. so we crawled our way through, trying to keep calm so we wouldn't draw as much attention. >> what were you hearing? >> gunshots. people screaming. once they realized it was a serious moment, i felt the caps from the bullets burn my leg. it was very serious. a lot of screaming. a lot of people trying to make their way out. me, i could not see, being in the front, not knowing if he was still in the front or if he went past me. so i just was cautious, stayed low to the ground, and tried to get out of there. >> it was just chaos. you saw injured people. you saw -- there was this one guy who was on all fours crawling. there was this girl spitting up blood. there were bullet holes in some people's backs. some people's arms. there was this one guy who was stripped down on like just his boxers. it looked like he had been shot like in the back or something.

it was crazy. >> there were people gathered around. i saw a younger girl just laying there with bullet wounds, just bleeding. for a young girl like that -- >> she was scared? >> yeah. >> of what? >> it was crazy. i don't know. i mean, she just got shot. probably was dying. >> as i walk out, i see that young girl shot, blood. everything that i would never expect to see in real life. and then what really caught me offguard is there was -- she was like 24, 25, around my age, and she said i just need someone to talk to. one of my best friends just got shot, and i don't know who to talk to right now. >> they have a suspect, his name is james holmes, we're told. he is a 24-year-old white male. and when police got to the scene, when they rushed into the theater we're told that he surrendered with no resistance. now you can see the theater behind me. apparently the investigation is ongoing. we know that there were 10

people who were killed in the theater. others may have died outside at the hospital. some of the bodies apparently still in the theater as police try to piece together exactly what happened here. charlie and norah? >> barry, do we know how the suspect got into the theater and what happened in the first moments of this incident? >> we can say that he -- as you're sitting facing the screen, he came in from the right-hand side apparently through the exit door. an eyewitness suggested that someone may have opened that door. but we don't know. that may have been the shooter. we still don't know. that's in the realm of speculation.

in a theater nearby, people were sitting there watching the movie. >> barry peterson, thank you so much. senior correspondent john miller has additional information on the shooting and the 24-year-old suspect. john, good morning. >> what we know is that james egan holmes is from san diego originally. moved to colorado into the aurora area. that apartment on harris street, apartment 10, which police are in the process of searching now with hazmat technicians and specialists and s.w.a.t. people. we also know he bought that car that we have been looking at in the movie theater parking lot, which seems to be positioned at the rear of the theater right next to the trash bins where that exit behind the screen would lead to, as you have been asking about how he got in and out. and to the left of that car you can see some things on the ground, black things. that appears to be body armor. don't know if that was additional body armor from the car or the suspect.

or if that belongs to police. but it's laying out there. big question now is still a motive. why? and he's not saying as we're told by sources close to the case. >> we do have information that the police are looking inside from -- at his apartment, and believe it may be booby trapped. >> that's right. their first look in there was with a pole camera. and they saw what they said was buckets full of ammunition. now you can see on this tape they were operating from a fire department cherry picker. and looking inside there what appears to be an fbi agent looking in the window at what they suspect might be a booby trap set specifically for police who would enter that apartment to search it. so what that tells us is they're going to come into that apartment any way but through the front door. >> john, 24-year-old white american, james holmes. he lives in this apartment. as you described, federal law enforcement officials saying

there were buckets of ammunition, perhaps chemicals inside that apartment. is that apartment a treasure trove of information in terms of why this man did this? and what else he may have been planning? >> well, that apartment is two things right now. it's a hazardous environment because of the potential for explosives, the potential for booby traps, the potential for chemicals. probably those made to use this gas dispursal device, this canister that witnesses have described he threw in there. >> and that's why police say they evacuated that entire apartment building. >> that's right. first, it's a hazardous situation. once they render that safe and get control of that apartment, then it really is a treasure trove of evidence, because you're going to have the ammunition. you're going to have the chemicals. but you're also going to have his notes, videos, computers, hard drives. and communications with associates. probably the closest thing you're going to get as a window into why he did this or what

he's been thinking. >> one of the things that's clear here is that the fbi and local police are cooperating in this investigation. you know some of the people from experiences in your own professional life and the fact that they are of the highest professional skills. >> i mean, from a law enforcement standpoint, denver is a seamless environment. this is -- these are law enforcement teams. aurora, colorado, denver, colorado, arapaho county, that have been through things like the columbine shootings together. danny oates, the chief of police, and the fbi director there are very professional and very experienced. >> and they are trying to look at everything they can find out about this person and suspect and at the same time match it with every profile they have of someone who does this kind of deed. >> that's right. and time is on their side in that regard. >> president obama is cutting short his campaign trip in florida. he plans to address the shooting tragedy later this morning. bill plante is at the white house.

good morning, bill. >> reporter: good morning, charlie. the president is in the air right now. we just listened to a briefing that the press secretary jay carney gave en route. he said that the president has had further briefings on the situation from his top advisers, including fbi director robert muller, his chief of staff jack lu and john brandon, the counterterrorism chief. the president first heard about this this morning at 5:26 when brandon called him. but carney says when he was talking to the president on this flight, the president's first reaction, and these are carney's words, were concern that you feel as a parent carney said that he mentioned how heavy his heart is and how he understands the pain that parents and loved ones must be suffering. the campaign and the white house made the joint decision to cut short the president's campaign swing in florida. he is going to talk about this at fort myers, florida, at 11:20 eastern time this morning. and you'll be hearing that. and then instead of going on, he's going to come back here to washington, d.c., because as

carney said he both wants to stay on top of events and also to find out what is happening to the victims. earlier today, the white house released a statement from the president and the first lady, which said michelle and i are shocked and saddened by the horrific and tragic shooting in colorado. federal and local law enforcement are still responding. my administration and i will do everything that we can to support the people of aurora in this extraordinarily difficult time. we are committed, the statement says, to bring whoever was responsible to justice, ensuring the safety of our people and caring for those that have been wounded. as we do when confronted by moments of darkness and challenge, we must now come together as one american family. all of us must have the people of aurora in our thoughts and prayers, as they confront the loss of family, friends, and neighbors, and we must stand together with them in the challenges hours and days to come.

so the president will continue to follow this. you'll hear from him later, and he'll be back here this afternoon. charlie? >> canceling those campaign events. bill plante, thank you so much. we're joined now by tanner coon, who was in the theater and narrowly missed getting hit by a bullet. tanner, i'm glad you're ok. tell us what happened inside that theater. >> well, about 30 -- 20 or 30 minutes after the movie started, we saw -- i saw a canister fly across the audience. just trailing smoke. i thought it was some kind of prank. and preceded by a large flash and a bang. and i thought maybe fireworks. but after the three more shots, i realized this was real gunfire. i told my friends, get down. you know, everything is really just piecing its way back into my mind. and so after that, he shot off about 20 more rounds or so. there was a break. i stuck my head up.

caught a glimpse of him, just the silhouette. and he started shooting again. and i ducked my head down. another 20 or so shots. and there was a time of quietness. and so everyone started bolting for the exit at the top. i was about four rows from the top. i went to the row behind me, and i slipped on some blood, landed on a lady. i shook her, told her we need to go, we need to get out of there. there was no response. i presumed she was dead. i went into the exit. and waited for my friends to come. i saw a guy who was clutching his neck as he was bleeding. and, i mean, it was just insane. we tried to get out. we went through the lobby. and just got out of that theater. >> did you see any pattern in the way he was firing the shots? was it people who were trying to flee? >> no. >> was it individuals or was it

any pattern? >> you know, when i stuck my head up, i saw him like -- like some people trying to move, because there was a time of pause, and people trying to get out. and he did aim towards them. when i started putting my head down. and, you know, as far as i could tell, it was just sporadic shooting for the most part, and he was just mainly aiming at anything that moved. >> he had a gas mask on? >> yeah. i mean, i could not see the gas mask myself. but when i saw his silhouette, i could tell that he did have a facial structure. i could tell like he was wearing some kind of mask of some sort. >> how much time seemed to elapse between the time that the canister went off and the time that he surrendered to police? were you there still? >> well, when he did surrender to police, i was actually at a restaurant. i left the theater and went to a restaurant for my sister to come pick me up.

but probably the time between that was -- well, timed from the beginning to the end of the shooting was probably about one or two minutes. and then probably the time that he surrendered was another five minutes after that. >> i mean, when the police came in, he simply stopped shooting and surrendered. is that your impression of what happened or what you saw? >> well, he stopped shooting -- there was no police inside the theater as far as i could tell. the first cop car i saw was when i was out of the theater, and i left. i mean, if there was police, i >> so he stopped shooting before the police arrived, and just did what? just stood there? >> well, i don't know. i think he -- i talked to somebody and they said that they witnessed him go out of the front doors and towards the parking lot. >> well, we certainly are glad for you that you survived. it is an extraordinarily tragic circumstance. and i know you must have known

friends who were there and experienced the horror of it all. so we thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. >> all right, thank you, tanner. all morning, police have been carefully searching the apartment of the suspected gunman, james holmes. rick salinger of our denver station is at the scene and is filing this report. >> reporter: good morning. this is the scene outside of the apartment of the suspect who has been identified as james holmes. when he was taken into custody, apparently he told authorities that there were explosives in this apartment. a ladder from the fire department has been moved up to the window of his third floor unit. earlier, a number of officers and agents were on the ladder peering inside the apartment. they had broken the window. but we did not see them enter. we don't know if that apartment is booby trapped or there are any devices inside. but they are playing it quite

cautiously. over to the other side of the building, there are several bomb squads that are parked outside with their units awaiting orders. we did see members of the bomb squads dressed in protective suits. now a perimeter has been set up around this apartment building, but i've got to tell you, it is not a wide perimeter. and one would expect that if they believe that there is a large explosive device in there, that the perimeter would be much further away. people have been evacuated from their homes, although some nearby just a matter of a block or two are still around. and so the scene continues to develop. back to you. >> all right. thank you. and john miller, we already know now that here in new york, police officials are concerned perhaps about copycats. >> that's right. we know from police commissioner raymond kelly today that they are going to put additional patrols around theaters particularly ones where the batman film is playing.

one to alleviate concerns and two in the event of any copycat. >> and that's probably pretty standard procedure. >> from the nypd standpoint, an abundance of caution.

we'll go back live to aurora for continuing coverage, and we'll hear from some witnesses who were actually inside the theater. that's ahead on "cbs this morning." straight from the ceiling, he took a gun and pointed it straight to my face. he was literally three feet away from me. he was wearing a gas mask. he looked like he was from a s.w.a.t. team. i was terrified. i jumped forward into the aisle and curled into a ball and waited for him to go upstairs. at that point, everybody started to try to crawl out the aisle and escape.

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we'll go back to aurora, colorado, for a live report on the scene of this deadly movie theater shooting. >> at least 12 people were killed and a suspect is in custody. ahead, the president's statement on the tragedy. also, programming note. a special edition of "48 hours" tonight on cbs on the shooting. we'll take a break in just a moment. but we continue to look at this tragedy in aurora, colorado,

where the suspect is in custody, where there are at least 12 people killed. a number of them in critical condition. and the investigation by the police and the fbi continues. >> this is a cbs 5 eyewitness news morning update. >> good morning everyone, 7:26 a.m., i will be caught bay area headlines. ileana lopez finishing her testifying before the san fransisco ethics commission in an effort to help her husband ross mirkarimi keep his job as the sherrif. today will ask a judge to allow them to see one another again. a sweep in the south they ended with 15 men being arrested on child pornography charges, a task force spent months investigating the suspects. the sharp warnings on the santa cruz beach.

a great white shark spotted near the beach, at 14 ft. they're allowing people to go into the water today. traffic and weather coming up on your friday right after this. >>

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." we're following a mass shooting overnight at a movie theater outside of denver. bob orr has new information on the investigation of the suspected gunman. he is in washington. good morning, bob. >> good morning, charlie. the big mystery now for investigators as you've been pointing out all morning is they are trying to find out who is this guy. the suspect has been identified to us as james e. holmes. 24 years old as you reported many times. he apparently lived for a while in the san diego area. he is now in colorado. but here is the real mystery. this is a guy who apparently went to a methodical planning, if he is indeed the shooter,

accumulated a real arsenal in his open apartment. i mean, he was loaded for bear. but appears to be literally a one-man gang. now of course they are still checking all the traps, but the police see no connectivity here to any kind of domestic organized group. obviously, no international terrorism nexus. they have taken a quick scan at what they can do with public media, and they don't see anything on the public media that explains anything about who he was, what he wanted to do, what the apparent motive was. some people suggest, well, does he have a connection to the batman movie? they see nothing in that regard. so until they can get into the apartment, as john miller has been saying, and until they can find his computer, perhaps his phones, any kind of handwritten logs, they may not know what this guy was all about. now, it's very unusual, i have to say, in these kinds of mass shootings for anybody to be kind

of a, quote, lone wolf. they might plan alone, act alone. but fbi profilers will tell you there is almost always some kind of sign, either a sign that people have missed, interpret the incorrectly, or people ignored. but did he drop any kind of hints about disgruntledness? right now, we have zero in the motive category. we do know that they have recovered a cache of weapons. some reports say three weapons, some four. but at least one assault weapon, one shotgun, and two pistols. and as reported many times this morning, all kinds of ammunition still in that apartment. so this was a guy who thought about this apparently for a very long time. this was not a spur of the moment act of spontaneous anger. he had a plan, and he carried it out with very deadly results, charlie. >> bob, cbs' mary walsh is reporting that pentagon officials is saying there is no record that this suspect, holmes, served in any branch of the military.

which has been sort of an open question. but he clearly had some training with some pretty heavy duty weaponry and also how to make sort of a tear gas like canister, which john has pointed out you could learn on the internet. >> sure. and this also, norah, raises a question. did anybody notice that he was accumulating all of that weapons? did he spend a lot of time at shooting ranges? there's no military record. there is no as far as we can tell criminal record. one relatively minor traffic incident. this is a true mystery, because if this is the right guy, if police have the right guy, he has a clean slate. in terror circles they would call this guy a blue chip clean skin. now, he is not connected to any known terror group. but this is really baffling. we have seen cases like this before. i think about virginia tech. you think about the jared loughner of course in the congresswoman shooting.

in all of those cases, there was some behavior that in hindsight should have raised red flags. i suspect at the end of the day here we're going to look back, and the police are going to look back, and they are going to find things that weren't seen at the time that really perhaps were signs, because it's very hard to imagine he could have gone to the planning he went to, accumulated the cache of weapons and the materials that he was able to do, and do it completely under the radar. and that's what it appears to be here. >> bob, why are they -- i don't want to use the word "convinced" but saying as far as we know it was a one-man operation? >> well, charlie, they have looked through the criminal databases and the terrorist databases and see no nexus to any kind of groups. so far no active social media engagements. in other words, they don't see him online communicating with any bad characters. in the ft. hood case for

example, nadal hassan had a number of communicatins with known terrorists. what could change that, is once they get his cell phones, if he had more than one. once they look at his computers, they will then be able to put together kind of this tapest tree of where he's been, who he has talked to, what he's done, and maybe in that tree of context they'll find out that there was somebody else there who either knowingly or unknowingly was helping him. but as of right now, they think he is a lone actor as far as they can see. >> bob orr, thank you so much. so here we are again, one man, one suspect, in custody, saying nothing. and several eyewitnesss describing as coming from the same place, opened up a canister and started shooting. >> i think a lot of answers will be in that apartment where they are proceeding carefully. as bob pointed out, chemicals, weapons, ammunition. but a lot of the other answers

will be in the records. if he is the buyer of these weapons, there be records of when he got the ak-47. how many magazines did he buy for it. were they the full 30-round couldn't have gotten under the - assault weapons ban, but when it expired now again he can. when did he get the handguns? did he get them basically all at once, or over a period of time? or are they registered to -- do the atf records show they were purchased by someone else? >> all right. john miller, thank you. it is now 7:36. time now for your local weather.

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we're going back to aurora, colorado, where a shooting at a movie theater has killed at least 12 people. julian wynn was in the theater and witnessed the shooting. good morning. >> hi. >> as you picture us here, norah o'donnell is with me. can you hear me now? can you hear me? >> yeah, i can hear you. >> ok. just hold it to your ear. that will be ok. just hold it. >> yeah. i'll just hold it. >> ok. that's good. you were there. and i can't imagine what it's like to experience this. but tell me as much as you can

what you saw, including what about the gunman. you may not have heard me. tell me if you can hear me now. we're looking at pictures of the tragedy. from aurora. can you hear me, julia? you can? ok. >> you know, it's interesting, charlie. >> from the right of the room to the left. it was like a stink bomb. i thought somebody was trying to do a jerk. i just told my friend, just sit there, it's just a stink bomb. and it blew up. that's how all regular sink bombs go off. we saw someone from the right corner of our eye. we saw sparks in the air. and still didn't think it was anything. i thought it was firecrackers or anything. i told them to stay, because it stopped. then it just started going off and off and off. and a lady at the bottom of the

stairs said someone got shot or something. so me and my friend, aaron, we were sitting toward the middle. we just got on the ground, and kind of tried to crawl our way out to the back exit. and like everybody was just pushing each other and everything. we fell over. there was a girl who got shot in her leg. and like they tried to get her down the stairs and everything. i just got down with my friend, and like just ran out the door. that's where we caught up with my brother. and outside was where all the chaos i guess you could say happened. there was a guy who got shot in both his legs. he came over to our car, and we sat him down. took off our belts and tied his leg so the bleeding could stop. and we called 911 right away. called the police officer over to try to get him some help. yeah. >> when you left the theater, had the gunman stopped shooting? >> when the left the theater, had the gunman stopped shooting? >> when we were going out the exit, there were still shots going on. i don't know why people were

running back in. there were still shots. by the time i went down the stairs, i didn't hear any other gunshots. >> and did you see him, get a look at him? >> did you get a look at him? did you see him? >> i did not get a look at him because it was dark, and he was in the dark corner right next to the screen. i guess he was wearing all black. all we saw was the little light go off from the gun. >> all right, julia. thank you. and the tragedy certainly in colorado is resonating on capitol hill. we're going to get some reation from there ahead on "cbs this morning." we should also just note, though, that president obama has just taken the stage in fort myers. we'll stand by for a special report. >> let me first of all say how grateful i am for all of you being here. and how much we appreciate if everything that you've done. i know there are a lot of people

here who have been so engaged in the campaign and have sacrificed so much. people who have been involved back since 2007. [ applause ] >> and so i -- i want all of you to know how appreciative i am, and i know many of you came here today for a campaign event.ve

and if there's anything to take away from this tragedy, it's the reminder that life is very trapblg ill. our time here is limited and it is precious. and what matters end of the day is not the small things. it's not the trivial things which so often consume us and our daily lives. ultimately it's how we choose to treat one another and how we love one another. it's what we do on a daily basis, to give our lives meaning and to give our lives purpose. that's what matters.

at the end of the day what we're remembering. what we loved and what we did for others. that's why we're here. i'm sure many of you parents here have the same reaction i did when i heard thi news. my daughters go to the movies. what if malia and sasha had been at the theater. as so many of our kids do every day. michelle and i will be fortunate enough to hug our girls a little tighter tonight, and i'm sure you will do the same with your children. for those parents who may not be so lucky, we have to embrace them and let them know we will be there for them as a nation. i'm so grateful that all of you

are here. i'm so moved by your support. but there will be other days for politics. this i think is a day for prayer and reflection. [ applause ]. so what i'd ask everybody to do, i'd like us to pause in a moment of silence for the victims of this terrible tragedy, for the people who knew them and loved them, for those who are still struggling to recover and for all the victims of less publicized acts of violence that plague our communities every single day. so if everybody can just take a moment.

thank you, everybody. i hope all of you will keep the people of aurora in your hearts and minds today. may the lord bring them comfort and healing in hard days to come. i am grateful to all of you. and i hope that as a consequence of today's events, as you leave here, you spend a little time thinking about the incredible blessings that god has given us. thank you very much, everybody. god bless you. god bless the united states of america. >> the president leading the nation in a moment of silence

after denouncing what he called these heinous crimes and violence in aurora, colorado today. and also the commander in chief acting as consoler in chief, using this moment to say it's not the small things in life in matter. it's how we treat one another and how we love one another that matters how we love and what we do for others that matters. he canceled campaign events in florida to return to washington. this has been a cbs news special report. some of you will have local programming. for others, stay with us for the colorado mass shooting. .'m nora o'donnell reporting foo washington lawmakers are reacting -- well, indeed, you know, this is a time that you need the healing voice of the president of the united states.

in a sense to express the this. >> right. it's not just a statement that comes from the president or from a campaign. it's sort of the words. and president obama has used occasions like this before. he did after of course the shooting of gabby giffords in arizona, that terrible shooting, to talk about kind of the values that most people hold near and dear. and i also thought it was interesting that he referenced his own daughters, talking about every parent sort of thinking, what if my children had been in that movie theater? and that really is what pulls at everybody's heart strings. >> i also think of that moment that president reagan spoke to at the time of the space tragedy and also president clinton after the tragedy in oklahoma city. the sense of someone speaks of the nation's grief and asks the questions we're asking this morning, how could this happen, and what did we learn from it? >> right. and how do we treat one another, which i think is sort of the point that the president was making. we also want to go now to

nancy cortes, our congressional correspondent up on capitol hill, who has been talking with members up there. nancy, hello. >> reporter: hello to you, norah and charlie and gayle as well. well, congressional leaders have been expressing shock, trying to offer words of comfort. as you know, this is the type of crime that really hit home for members of the congressional family in january of 2011 when one of their own, congresswoman gabrielle giffords, was shot, wounded badly in the head, in another mass shooting in tucson, arizona, that killed six people and injured her and 12 others. so house speaker john boehner said this morning that confronted with incomprehensible evil, americans pull together and embrace our national family more tightly. house minority leader nancy pelosi echoing those words and saying the thoughts and prayers of all members of congress are with coloradans this morning as they grapple with the random senseless act of violence that took the lives of innocent people.

and colorado senator mark udall said, quote, i am deeply saddened and outraged by these senseless and tragic shootings. he went on to say, i am praying for a speedy recovery for those who were wounded. other members of the colorado delegation are using words this morning like stunned, furious, and horrific. >> nancy, will the congress expressly do anything differently than it would have done different today or have any kind of special expression of the nation's grief? >> reporter: well, the senate actually went out yesterday, so i would assume actually that the two colorado senators like many and are on their way to their n home districts. normally after a shooting like this, there are remembrances on the house and senate floors, and expressions of condolences. in the past, we also used to see some discussions about gun violence. we haven't seen that as much recently. >> nancy, thank you so much. we're going to take a break.

some of you will have a local news date. others, stay with us for continuing coverage of the colorado mass shooting in aurora. good morning, we want to do, but bay area headlines. the biggest ipo since been disappointing debut of facebook. shares of a security case software company went on the new york stock exchange, the price is already more than 30% above the starting price of $42. a good start for them. warnings posted along much of the santa cruz county coastline after a suspected great white shark was spotted off the shore. a helicopter pilots all the

short yesterday near the sea cliffs the beach. beaches remain open but the warning stretches from seascape all the way no. 2 capital. we have traffic and weather for the big weekend coming up after the break.

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warming up to the upper eighties, pushing 90 in the inland areas, cooler around the bay in the '70s and we will be warmer through the weekend reaching into the mid-90s.

what if malia and sasha has been in the theater. as so many of our kids do every day. michelle and i will be fortunate enough to hug our girls a little tighter tonight, and i'm sure you will do the same with your childr children. for those parents who may not be so lucky, we have to embrace them and let them know we will be there for them as a nation. >> president obama speaking about the aurora tragedy. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm charlie rose.

we're following a mass shooting overnight inside a movie theater in colorado. at least 12 people were killed. it happened at a midnight showing of the new batman movie "the dark knight rises". we're learning more about the suspected gunman. barry petersen is on the scene in aurora to bring us up to date. what can you tell us? >> reporter: we've got 12 dead, 16 critical, 33 injured. the youngest victim a 3-month-old baby. the eyewitnesss tell us they're sitting, watching the movie. an emergency door opens on the right-hand side. the gunman comes in. he throws some sort of gas canister, maybe teargas, something like that. there's an explosion. then he begins to open fire. now he is apparently somebody involved with explosives because the police almost immediately go to where he lives in aurora to an apartment building. they eve been searching this andment building. they're very nervous about

what's inside it because of the possibility of explosives. we hear more about that now from the aurora police chief, daniel oates. >> right behind us, the building with the sign there that says one and studio apartments is the residence of the subject who was arrested this morning. he lives on the third floor in the back. his apartment is apparently booby trapped. we have a whole bunch of bomb techs from all different agencies. we have pictures from inside the location. we're trying to determine how to disarm the flammable or explosive material that's in there. that's why we're here. we could be here for hours. we could be here for days trying to figure out how to get in there. obviously we're very concerned to get whatever evidence there is. the pictures are pretty disturbing. it looks pretty sophisticated in terms of how it's booby trapped.

>> reporter: the suspect is a 24-year-old white man, james holmes. so far police believe he's the only suspect. i've got to tell you from standing here and visiting with any number of people who were actually in the theater, one part of the story is consistent. he walked in, he did not say anything. he did not explain anything. he simply threw the teargas canister and in a very cold-blooded way opened fire randomly on people scrambling to get out of the way. back to you. >> barry, it's clear, also, police had taken him very seriously, as the police chief said, what the explosive, the flammable explosive might be inside his apartment. >> reporter: i think they're extremely nervous about what they're going to find in that apartment. they found stuff. i think there may have been stuff in his car. back in the parking lot they did a car-by-car search. obviously in a situation like this, the suspect is in custody. we don't know what he's been

telling them. we do know the police have been very, very slow about getting into that apartment because i think they're extremely nervous about what they might find, booby traps, things like that. they're moving carefully. >> barry petersen in aurora, thank you. >> what danny oats, improvised explosive device, an incendiary device more precisely which is a fire bomb rigged to go when police made their entry that would have sent out a large fireball that would have engulfed the officers as they entered, but also the apartment and by extension, potentially the building. it is not a terribly difficult device to make. it can be used with flammable liquid and pressurized devices, things like that. but it certainly does show what we've been seeing signs of all

morning in this terrible tragedy, which is a lot of preoperational planning and a meticulous plot that is laid out in stages. the shooting at the theater allowing himself to be captured, it may give light or explanation to the fact that after making one violent statement at the theater, he didn't really talk to investigators who went to his home on the idea that he wanted more of his plot to unfold. >> pretty sophisticated bobby trapped that was described. i'm looking at the denver post that says this 24-year-old suspect described himself in his apartment rental application early last year as a student who was quiet and easygoing. >> what's amazing to me is he wanted to kill and live. >> yeah. in the various versions of this we've seen, you have somebody

strikes out, takes as many lives as possible and takes his own life before police gets there and waits for police and commits what the profilers call suicide by cop. they build up the confrontation and try to get the police to do the job for them. in this case you're looking at the profile of someone who probably wants to orchestrate this whole thing, have it play out the way he wants to. this is someone who is looking for a feeling of control, probably someone who hasn't felt in control of their lives, that it's come to this point that they've created this plot, to put themselves in charge. that last aspect, booby trapping the apartment after trying to lure police to go there which he knew they obviously would is yet another aspect of trying to control a situation, take charge and do so in a deadly way. >> right now they're describing him, john, as a lone wolf. in your experience is anybody ever really a lone wolf? is it conceivable he could have planned out something that appears to be very elaborate alone without getting help from

anybody or somebody not noticing, where is all the ammunition? what are you doing with all the weapons? >> the weapons he has while very deadly are not terribly exotic. the components, both for his gas bomb at the theater or his incendiary device at home are really the kinds of stuff that, if you know how to make them, you can find in the hardware store. it's entirely possible that not only did he fly under law enforcement radar but may have flown under the radar of his friends, although i have to point out, everyone who has studied the history of these mass shooters, particularly in school shootings and college shootings like virginia tech will tell you in almost every instance, in 90% of the time they have telegraphed their intentions. they have told others around them who either didn't believe them or didn't think they would go through with it. >> especially if he's acquiring buckets of ammunition that were believed to be found inside the apartment building. he had, what, four different

guns, a kevlar vest, a gas mask. he was armed for battle. >> he was very well prepared. >> it's sbertsesting, too, it would be the batman movie where many people are thinking this is part of the movie, a guy in black with a gas mask comes in. someone thought, look, i just thought it was a jerk acting out. >> you have people going to the theater in costume, some of the characters, in his costume, black tactical gear with a gas mask in many ways resembles that of the villain in the batman movie. we don't know if that was purposeful in terms of imagery, but we certainly know why it confused the theater goers. >> do we know anything about why people choose a certain venue? >> i think in this case the two questions that spring from the original question are did he choose it because of the theme of the movie? does it have anything to do with the batman movie?

or on the other hand, did he pjust choose it because it's a hot movie and it would draw a big crowd. it would give him the largest pool of victims in a confined place where his tactical plan, which as we've looked at it, is very well thought out, where his tactical plan would get the greatest benefit in terms of delivering victims from his standpoint or from our standpoint, the worst result in terms of carnage. >> john miller, thank you. we're learning more about some of the ving tims in the shooth. natalie tejeda lost a friend in the shooting. he joins us from san antonio. natalie, our condolences to you. tell us about your friend. >> thank you, nora. one of the things i really want people to know about jessica is that she was fun, she was vivacious. she was feisty. she was a redhead. she was so full of live. she moved to denver about a year ago to pursue a career in

sportscasting. that's actually how we met. i knew her brother through some of my friends in the media, then i met her. i was kind of helping to guide her along a little bit down the path. i worked in the business for about ten years. i was so excited for her to land some more internships and even a job as a sports writer. every time she would text me or facebook me or tweet me she was coming back to san antonio, i was so excited. just to hear -- when i found out she was part of that crowd, it was just -- it's like your heart drops in your chest and your breath catches, and you just can't believe that someone you know is part of such a huge tragedy. it's shocking. >> how did you hear the news, natalie? how did you hear? >> gayle, like so many things these days, you find out about this stuff on twitter and facebook. i actually saw a post from her brother jordan that said this is probably one of the worst nights

of my life. a short while later, he said it's been confirmed that my sister was fatally wounded at a theater in colorado. i was going, that can't be write. i opened a link for a news story and there was jessica's picture and literally i just went. [ gasps ] >> natalie, this story has gone viral in some ways because i understand that jessica, her last blog post in june was about her describing how she was in a shopping mall in toronto where another shooting had occurred, and she had survived that shooting. >> it's amazing. she had narrowly missed another mass shooting incident literally in toronto. she was dating a man in colorado who was a hockey player. he's canadian. they had gone home to toronto to visit friend and family. she's from san antonio. they had gone home to his family

in canada. she decided she was hungry. they went to the mall to go to the food court. she decided about 6:20 p.m., she ordered some food, and she said, i feel funny. i'm going to go outside and get some fresh air, and she said next thing she knew people were running and screaming from the exits. she saw police officers, fire trucks, and she started asking people what's going on? is somebody sick? they said, no, there was a shooting in the food court. she thought, i was just there. she found out the shooting happened at 6:23 p.m., three minutes after she'd left the food court. >> natalie, do you know if she went to the theater with other people, and did they survive? >> she was with a friend of hers from san antonio, her friend brent, he was visiting her from san antonio and the two of them had gone to go to the midnight showing of "the dark knight

rises." their story is just really horrific. he survived. he was struck in the back side, and i talked with his father larry this morning who told me he was struck in kind of the back side area, had one large bullet and a large piece of shrapnel that hit him. he came out of surgery this morning. we're really grateful. they were still struggling to get the bleeding stopped. looks like he's going to make a full recovery. no vital organs were hit. he told jordan, jessica's brother, and also told his family that he felt himself get hit and heard her say i've been hit. she looked and they looked and her leg was struck. she started crying. this is the part where it's just horrific. he said, once she started crying, the shooter was nearby and heard that and turned and that's when she was shot in the face. she just went silent. he said that's when the chaos erupted. so young. >> so young and her final post on twitter -- >> so tragic.

>> jessica's final post on twitter which in some ways almost seems prophetic, saying i was reminded that i don't know when or where our time on earth will end. that was before she lost her life. >> natalie, our deepest sympathy to you in the loss of a friend. thank you for joining us this morning. we go to john miller with more information about the suspect. >> the associated press is reporting the university of colorado medical center is telling them that the shooter -- medical school, that the shooter was a student there who withdrew several months ago. so we're going to work to get more information on that. interesting, it could fit in in that with mass shooting incidents, as you go backwards through them, if you study them, usually there are one or more stressors. they call them, the loss of a girlfriend, breakup with a wife

or being thrown out of school that lead up to these things. that also might be telling. we need more information on it. >> what kind of stressor do you see there? >> well, the ap is reporting he withdrew from school. >> i missed that part. okay. >> we don't know if that was because there were other things going on in his life, he was failing out or something else. >> tha w would certainly fall i the s we're going to have continuing coverage on that

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at the bay bridge toll plaza despite the metering lights being backed up on the parking lot. slow up the incline and elsewhere the golden gate bridge misty this morning so you may need windshield wipers but overall traffic has been very light out orange county. it looks like traffic is looking pretty good as well as you work your way through milpitas. most of the south bay is moving ok with some slight delays northbound. no word of any accidents, and northbound 80 a little sluggish as you work your way through the maze. no delay headed eastward. >> it should be a gorgeous weekend throughout the bay area, but first we have low clouds and fog especially over parts of the coast and day, that is a live look over san fransisco where we are starting to see clearing in land and images out the door in the low 60s. 63 in mountain view and 60 in vallejo and upper 50s and sandra l. and san fransisco. we warm things up to the seventies around the bay and

pushing close to 90 in some of the inland spots. otherwise we see warmer weather by saturday, and sunday .. warming up to the mid-90s in the inland cities.

actually, you all are the reason i'm here. when a bunch of media showed up at a private residence, they called the police department because it was very disturbing to them, the presence of the cameras and the destruction to the neighborhood. actually the police department is just here to preserve the peace and make sure the privacy of the family is respected as well as the rest of the neighborhood because people still live here and there is still life going on in this neighborhood. we have to make sure that is respected. that's the only reason why the san diego police department is here. >> that is andra brown of the san diego police department outside what is believed to be the home of james holmes' parents who live in san diego,

california. there are many media there looking to speak to the parents of what is believed to be the alleged gunman in this massacre. >> in the effort to find out everything they can about the suspect who is in custody. welcome back to "cbs this morning." we're following the deadly shooting in colorado. this is what we know. at least 12 people were kille and dozens injured. a suspect, 24-year-old james holmes is in custody. >> the university of colorado medical school has told the associated press that he was a student there until last month. police say his apartment is booby trapped in a sophisticated way. rick salinger of our denver affiliate, kcnc is at the suspect's apartment building. >> reporter: here in front of the apartment of the suspect james holmes, two fire engines with ladders have been brought in. the ladders have been placed near the apartment of holmes which police now say has been booby trapped. they have taken pictures of the explosive devices inside and

what they've got to figure out now is how to defuse them. we understand the rob bot has gone inside, but the batteries are dieing so humans will have to go in and change the batte batteries. about a five-apartment-building area around us has been evacuated. the police say this is going to take quite some time to resolve. how long they don't know exactly. earlier they examined the dumpster directly beneath holmes' apartment. they took out some items from inside it, put it into an evidence bag and left with not only the bag but the entire dumpster. a couple of gurneys have been brought in behind one of the apartment buildings. we believe this is strictly as a precaution. there have been no injuries here so far. that's the latest. now back to you. >> as he has all morning, john miller -- >> what we're learning from that apartment is they've got a

complex operation there that they're trying to do remotely. that's the way you want to do it, which is rather than use a person in a render safe operation with a fire bomb or an explosive device, you send a robot in, a remote tech -- remote mobile investigator they call it, and you can do a lot with that. they've had their eyes on that device. they can probably see what -- visually how it's intended to function and what they need to do is disrupt it. you also see from the way they've positioned the ladders now, they have the tower ladder in place and the aerial ladder. they're probably in a position to pour water on the building in thes ka goes wrong. >> i assume the concern also is not wanting to damage things that might lead them to more information about the suspect. >> that's the concern, but the second concern. as you can see now, they have the hoses stretched on the live picture and it looks like the line is charged because the hoses are fat. really they are in a -- we're going to try to disrupt this

fire bomb remotely with a robot once we get that battery changed and that robot operating again. but if it goes wrong, if we have a fire, we are in a position to pour water on it. first concern will be public safety. second concern is going to be getting to that evidence which, of course, a fire bomb could destroy. >> as you said, protect and preserve. >> based on your experience, john, what specifically are they looking for? we hear the word booby trapped. is it a trip wire? is it dynamite, things that are ticking? what specifically do you think? >> it often involves a trip wire, a thin wire. i'm talking about the classic booby trap. you either send police to the location, tell them about the location, hand them your keys or you know they'll go there any way. you come through the front door. there's a fin wire like fishing

line. in some cases it will pour a thin line through a clothes pin, sending a charge to the wire which will be the initiator that's going to set off this fireball n the case of an incendiary device, explosion in the case of an ied. that's a classic trip wire setup. note how unsophisticated, lau tech yet diabolical it is. i think it's a testament to the police, they call this a come-on, make it irresistible and get them to charge through the door and get a second cadre of victims. they looked in the apartment a number of different ways. they detected this and they were able to slow this down, back up and take a very tactical and now remote, meaning robots, not people, approach. >> we have new information. a pentagon spokesman has said that u.s. service members apparently among the casualties. >> that would make sense.

it's right near buckley air force base, one of the largest air force bases in colorado. so there were probably a number of members stationed at buckley air force base who may have been at that movie theater. >> you know, guys, that's what's so heartbreaking to me about this story, that you go to see the batman movie of all things. right now there's somebody sitting next to sboid's hospital bed praying like they've never prayed before. you don't think the last place you're going to be unsafe is at a movie theater. that's what's so frightening to me. we all go to the movies. >> john, thank you as well. throughout the morning, you've been hearing chilling stories from eyewitnesss. we want to take a moment now to hear some of what they saw inside the theater. >> he came in and started lighting a gas can and he threw it into the crowd. at that point he shot his first fire tint ceiling to scare everybody and they started scattering and mass chaos happened. at that point he went from here to here and pointed the gun at

me. i was terrified, i dove into the aisle. at that point he started shooting people behind me. i had bullets burning my forehead and i just told myself, i need to get out of here. i crawled on the ground and laid in a ball and waited for him to go up the stairs. i said the second he goes up the stairs to my friend, corbin, we got to call, we got to get out of here. at that point i was trying to crawl out. everybody was crawling back in. they were saying don't go back over there, he's going to shoot everybody trying to get out of the main doors and he was. all i hear is gunshot after gunshot. women and children are screaming. he had a gas mask on. i couldn't see his face or anything like that. >> did you see his gun? >> yeah. i don't know exactly what kind of gun it was. it was just a big rifle. he was shooting 24e78, they were big bullets. they were hot. all i smelled was gunpowder in the air. i was terrified. the gas was getting to me. i was having a hard time breathing. i was saying, if we don't get out of here, i'm going to suffocate.

we got to go. >> it was just chaos. you saw injured people. there was this one guy who was on four crawling. there was a girl spitting up blood. there were bullet holes in some people's backs, some people's arms. there was this one guy who was stripped down to just his boxers. it looked like he had been shot like in the back or something. it was crazy. >> i was with my younger sister and a friend, mike, and shala. we decided, you know, there's something not right going on, and we got up. as soon as we walked out the door, we saw several police officers were just different guns, like shotguns, i don't even know. i've never seen cops holding guns like that. we walked to the left and we just saw pretty much everything -- wasn't even under control at that point. there was just people scattered around. i saw a younger girl just laying there with bullet wounds just

bleeding, and the look in her eyes was, like -- i don't know. i've had family members who have been close to death and i've been there at the hospital. she just had that same look. and it was just scary. i've never seen that outside a hospital. for a young girl like that -- >> she was scared? >> yeah. it was crazy. >> of what? >> i don't know. she just got shot. probably of die sglg how were you feeling? >> shocked i guess. i don't even know how to react. i've never seen that. i wanted to help people, but what could i really do. there's a girl laying there, there's people laying out in the parking lot seriously injured. there's a guy being brought out by a police officer with blood all over him. what can i do to help him? i want to help but i can't. what can i do?

just kind of pretty much in shock is all. >> are you going to be okay? >> yeah, i'll be all right. >> i've never seen a gun in my life, to be 100% honest. i see him standing there with a big large gun covering his body. that throws me off. as we keep exiting -- >> a policeman? >> it was a policeman, but he wasn't dressed in gear. he was dressed in normal clothes with a vest on. so i knew what was going on but i didn't necessarily know the extent of everything. as we exited the theater, we see people on the left and the right crying, screaming. everything that just doesn't even seem real, and i'm just taking everything in. as i walk out, i see that young girl shot, blood, everything that i would never expect to see in real life and i just keep

looking around seeing my surroundings, and i see people walking out with blood on them. i'm still thinking maybe this is just -- maybe nothing is really going on here. i'm walking out seeing everyone else walking out, nonchalantly with blood on them, police officers following them saying we need ambulances out here. and what really caught me off guard is there was -- she was probably 24, 25, around my age. she just said i just need someone to talk to. one of my best friends just got shot and i don't know who to talk to right now. >> hearing those people is a reminder that these tragedies involve human beings who suffer consequences sometimes lasting for the rest of their life. john, let me come to you again because you've been on the phone during the break. >> i think, also, listening to the witnesses, one of the things that struck you was seger's description of the bullets hitting her head. what she's talking about there, and what she's talking about there is extremely frightening.

it's not the bullets hitting her heads. it's the suspect is in there with the long gun, he's taking aim. she's so close that as the shell casings are ejecting -- and they're very hot when they come out and smoke comes out, as the shell casings are ejected they're hitting her on the head and burning her. that means she's within six or nine feet of him. >> very close. >> i thought the president said it best, too, when he said life is fragile and the most important thing is how we choose to treat one another. there are many people whose lives are forever changed. it's chilling to me just sitting here listening to it all morning. >> some of the other things i've been talking to people over there, they have the booby traps in the apartment. they're described as incendiary devices. some of what we've seen is the fire department opening that window but also opening other windows. they're trying to get air into that apartment to lower the fumes if there is some kind of explosion.,,

joining us is congressman mike coffman from washington. good morning. >> good morning. >> your district includes aurora, correct? >> my district currently has the southern end of aurora. i grew up in aurora and close to where this incident occurred and went to that theater on numerous occasions with members of my family. >> clearly i know you have already expressed your great sympathy to the victims of this and you are on top of it from communication with people there. what can you add to what we already know about this in terms of this tragedy? >> well, i just was on the phone with the mayor of aurora, city of aurora, steve hogan. he informed me that 14 dead and 50 wounded by his understanding

of what's occurring. they will have a press conference at 11:00 colorado mountain time. it's just such a shock to the mayor, such a shock to me and to the whole community. i live in aurora almost all my life and nothing like this has ever happened here. i served in iraq with united states marine corps and i certainly expected incidents to occur, this level of violence in iraq, but never at home in aurora, colorado. >> what do you know about the suspect? did the mayor or anyone else there give you anymore information about the suspect? >> no. he didn't know a whole lot. they're just gathering the facts right now. so i don't think a lot is known right now other than it appears there wasn't resistance in terms of the individual giving up and surrendering. thus far, by reports i've seen, he's been pretty cooperative. >> you mean resistance or no

resistance? >> i don't know to speculate on that. i don't have that kind of detail. i think they're just gathering the facts right now. i think as we will understand this situation and probably understand what we can do to prevent things like this from occurring again. >> congressman, what you tell us about the community? i can't imagine what it's like to the people waking up to this horrible news. what kind of place is it? >> it's a great community. the third largest city in the state of colorado. it's all suburban, denver -- on the east side of denver. legacy is a military community, kind of has grown out of that but still has a significant military presence with an air force base. real -- very much middle class, working class community, just solid folks with good basic american values. >> congressman, mike coffman

from colorado, thank you for joining us this morning from washington and helping us understand this terrible tragedy that took place in aurora, colorado. we'll be right back. stay with us. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

i hope all of you will keep the people in aurora in your hearts and minds today. may the lord bring them comfort and healing in hard days to come. i'm grateful to all of you, and i hope that as a consequence of today's events, as you leave here, you spend a little time thinking about the incredible blessings that god has given us. thank you very much everybody. god bless you. god bless the united states of america. >> and that was president obama earlier this morning addressing a crowd in florida and taking some time to remember the victims of the shootings in colorado.

our denver station, kcnc is now reporting there are 13 dead. >> the president saying this is not a day for politics, that this is a day for prayer and reflection. there will be other days to do that. >> a programming note, there will be a special edition of "48 hours" tonight on cbs. we hope you'll take the time to take a look at "cbs evening news" as well as a special report. this is a national tragedy that has the eyes of the nation focused from the president to all the people who are thinking this day about the victims of this terrible tragedy in aurora, colorado. thank you very much for joining us this morning. we'll see you next time. >> we woke up to news of a tragedy that reminds us of all the ways that we are united as one american family. >> there has been a mass shooting at that time batman film premier in a suburb of denver. >> people running away. i hit the ground so i wouldn't be hit.

>> people inside tell us they thought it was part of the movie. >> blood all over. i don't ever want to see something like that again. >> a man walked to the front of one of the movie theaters holding a rifle and then just opened fire. >> the shells were like falling on my forehead. >> i seen him throw the teargas or something like that. >> i shook her, told him he need to go, there was no response. i presumed she was dead. >> there was one guy who was on all fours crawling. there was a girl spitting up blood. >> police say they just didn't want to wait for the ambulance so they started putting people in the back of squad cars. >> this is certainly something outside the scope of what we routinely see. >> police officers found the gunman in possession of a gas mask, at least a rifle and a handgun. >> police are still searching for possible e explosives at apartment building. >> his apartment is apparently boobytrapped. >> a motive still unknown.

>> a report that the shooter's parents lives in san diego. the mother was contacted, yes, you have the right person. i need to call police. i need to fly to colorado. >> the people we lost,,,,,,,,,,,

>> this is a cbs 5 eyewitness news morning update. >> it is 8:55 a.m.. santa clara county sheriff's deputies are looking into a shooting. investigators say that a man entered a home and shot the victim and then fled the scene. crews are now carrying out more demolition of buildings to make way for a are to come to san jose. this was the first phase of the project. it will extend bart for 10 mi. past the station in fremont to north san jose. yahoo offering former ku executive carissa meyer up to $59 million in compensation to

be at the company over the next several years. her annual salary is $1 million and another $30 million if she stays for five years. maybe i should have gone into the technology world. >> not a bad idea. here is a look over san fransisco, a gray morning. this is a camera on top of the transamerica building in san fransisco. once again through the morning hours we will see sunshine by letter on this afternoon at temperatures will warm up. much warmer than yesterday especially in inland areas. close to 90 degrees otherwise 60s around the coast and seventies around the bay. warmer still for the start of the weekend, we will reach the mid-90s in some areas, seventies closer to the bay and 90 sticking around through the middle of next week. we'll have time saver traffic coming up next.

>> good morning, if you plan on taking part, a heads up, dealing with delays on the pittsburgh bade thbay line. tended to play as he headed to seventh disco and the rest of the bay area has some hot spots. 880 and 17 interchange, traffic flow as you approach the scene but was to get past the exit and you can see net 280 is in the green on the travel times. 101 northbound through san jose showing some slight delays and northbound 87, a stalled vehicle that has cleared and slow and go. 237 looking pretty good.

oakland slowing down northbound 880, 29 minutes ago, once you get to the maze, to the bay bridge toll plaza traffic is pretty light. have a great weekend. ,,,,,,

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